Hello List,

A good friend of mine purchased his first Vanagon last week.  He bought an
85 gl passenger van with a manual transmission.  After driving up the state
of Mississippi on his way to his home in Memphis TN his transmission stopped
working.  I am going to phone him to talk through some trouble shooting
proceedures but wanted to contact the list on two points.

First does anyone on the list have a lead on a good and hopefully cheap
manual transmission in the case that his proves faulty.

Second does anyone have any suggestions or experience with the symptoms that
he describes as:

".....stopped at a red light was taking off .....think i was in about 2 or
3rd gear...and it seemed to have jumped out of gear.....i clutched
it......to find that the gears were no longer there....so i coasted to the
high school where it still sits......i tried going into every gear....but
they don't seem to be there....i can even crank it and shift through the
gear pattern with no clutch pushed in....it doesn't grind.....i checked the
linkage up to the tranny housing.......its all fine.....climbed under and
shifted it by hand.....so its something inside the housing......any ideas as
to what it could be?..."

Thanks as usual,,

Jonathan Poole
'83 AC Westy